My buddy insists I do. I really don't want to pay for another ongoing 'service'.
Are they necessary? What's good? And Cheap?
Are they necessary? What's good? And Cheap?
you mean VPN?
This. He must mean VPN.
You'd only need VLANs if you had a large network and want to segregate traffic for some reason.
A VLAN at home may be a good idea too - example: you want your bills, banking from an "adult" computer on one, gaming/kids on another, and a guest vlan for guests, company. The advantage to a vlan is there normally is no cross-traffic between the various vlans, creating another barrier for a hacker to breech to get to the important stuff on the "adult" computer.
Size has nothing to do with it. A lot of modern home routers have vlan capabilities. I have 3 vlans setup on my netgear router.
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I can see a network for guest wifi. What else do you use them for?
Security camerasI can see a network for guest wifi. What else do you use them for?
I can see a network for guest wifi. What else do you use them for?
Yes you should.
The biggest reason isn't privacy but for financial reasons. Your ISP is keeping track of everything you do on the internet and then re-selling that data.
It is actually very hard to be anonymous these days on the internet. You would need to go through at least 1 VPN and then also use TOR. Many commercial sites automatically block all TOR exit nodes. You also need to disable javascript, which many sites also require. Again, this isn't to spy on you but to collect that data to display ads or resell.
I highly recommend ProtonVPN. They have a free tier but only offers 2 exit nodes (one in the US). Their lowest paid tier is $8/mo and lets you set your exit node to any 50 different countries. This is great if you travel abroad and they restrict content based on location.
Another solution is you can get an OpenWRT compatible router and set that up to route all traffic in your home through a VPN. I haven't done this yet but seen the instructions on how to do this. This way there's no setting up to do on individual devices connected to the router.
I also recommend setting up a PiHole. It runs your DNS lookup for you and has a black list of known advertising domains. It then returns a bad ip address so no content from those domains is retrieved. This way when you visit a webpage the advertising comes back blank but you still get the other content. Pages that depend on advertisements, like Facebag or Pintrist, will not work.
Work/Gaming/Home Theatre/Security cameras
Make separate to prevent bandwidth saturation from one activity adversely effecting another